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Customer Reviews (4)

John M. Ford and company knock it out of the park
What I've always looked for in a GURPS book is a book that can be used in a variety of campaigns at a variety of TLs, equally useful in a fantasy campaign as in a futuretech campaign. Well, except for ones that warn you in the title, like Fantasy and Magic.

"Infinite Worlds" is a lot for a book to live up to. In defense of this book's critics, this book is finite in length, but the different ideas in here combined with the different ways you can implement them, lead to almost infinite variety. This book doesn't just cover time travel, but dimensional travel as well, including alternate histories, alternate worlds and just plain different places from our own.

With the tools in this book you can either play in the core campaign, invent your own brand-new campaign or create Sliders, Stargate, Lovecraft's maddening world-hopping, Starjammer or any combination in between.

In a pleasant departure from modern RPG standards, the book is almost completely devoid of copyediting errors and is of exceptionally high quality.

An Incredible Work
GURPS Infinite Worlds is truly one of the best tools created by GURPS. It comes with descriptions of dozens of worlds to use, and gives every thing you need to make new ones. Infinity, the corporation that travels through the worlds (and the books main route to exploration)is incredibly detailed, all the way down to day-to-day operations. It evens includes a handy guide for timetravel. And, of course, infinite enemies to run into are described, complete with templates to use. It deserves its award.

I HAD TO RETURN IT!
I was so excited to get this book.Imagine a book that combines all of the GURPS time travel books and information from 3Ed.Everything looks beautiful down to the hard back spine and cool new look and layout.When it arrived from Amazon I cracked it open and started to read.When I got to the section on explanations for time travel my heart sank.Could the idiot writers not come up with anything more original than a demon abusing you in the most fowl way in order to time travel?Steve Jackson should be ashamed.I love roleplaying books but not that much.I still have some values I'd like to live up to.Oh how the mighty have fallen.I'm glad Amazon let me return mine.I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.

Perhaps the best book yet.A solid 7 star effort...
But the scale only goes up to 5 stars!

I bought this book because it is advertised as the new "official" setting for GURPS fourth edition.The first thing I need to do is dispel that myth.This book contains that information but it contains so much more that you have troubles believing that the authors managed to cram so much information between the two covers without it exploding.

This isn't really a "background" book that describes a single well thought out campaign, it is more of a "background generator" book that provides the basis of literally thousands of possible campaigns.The scope of this book is so gigantic that I have troubles believing that the authors managed to finish this project anywhere near on time.

Want cross-time adventuring?It's in there.Want alternate histories?Boy is it EVER in there!Want Time Travel adventures?Yep, it's there too.Don't want to have to worry about blowing up the space-time continuum?There's suggestions on how to suspend disbelief without damaging gameplay.

Say you want to create your own alternate history but don't want to deal with all the icky stuff of guns vs. swords.There's a very detailed chapter that assists you in filling out your vision before your players go mucking around and spoil things by emphasizing the one thing you didn't think of.

My head was spinning by the time I was 90% of the way through the book.There was too much to grasp.The scale of the author's efforts had caused my brain to go into meltdown and I couldn't figure out whether I wanted to:
1) Run screaming from the room (did I mention that there's lots of Cthulu-oriented stuff in here as well?)
2) Ignore the book for a year or so until I could clear my head enough to think logically
3) Introduce my players to a tiny spoonful of this fascinating universe (my head ached from the thought of even trying to work out all of the causality-related issues)

Then I hit Chapter 7 (Infinite Campaigns) and the authors addressed all of my concerns and self-doubts in a few clever paragraphs.They pointed out that the big thing that the GM needs to do first is figure out what he and the players want to do.This needs to be in alignment or the game won't work (trying to force a locked-room Agatha Christie mystery down the throats of a bunch of combat-oriented gamers is a recipe for disapointment for everybody).Once you've got that down, determining which rules to follow becomes much more obvious.My sole complaint is that the authors didn't introduce this concept much sooner in the book.

I haven't checked the index yet but I suspect that it isn't that good compared to the normal GURPS standard simply because it is 2 pages long and this book should have at least a 20 page index.

The artwork is up to the usual very high standard for GURPS 4th edition and the authors have included a small selection of example stories that help you envision the possibilities (my favorite is about a group of Roman Legionaires who are attacking Rommel's tanks in the desert.You think the struggle would be uneven until you realize that all of the Legionaires have genetic modifications).I wish there were more stories, those stories made a huge difference in my appreciation of GURPS Magic but there's so much here already I can easily understand why the authors made the decision they did.

This book will help a GM enhance just about any campaign you can think of; fantasy, modern, science fiction, supers, horror, etc.

In short, buy this book! ... Read more

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Customer Reviews (3)

Professors: PLEASE use a different textbook
This textbook attempted to cover semester-long courses in a chapter each. It fell a little short.I've broken down the reasons why I felt it was an insufficient text.

Content:
Forensic Chemistry by definition is a very specific application (as it pertains to the law) of some very broad areas.The text does a good job in touching on these intersections. (e.g.. applied statistics, applied biochemistry, applied instrumental analysis, applied organic chemistry, applied physical chemistry, physics, thermodynamics, etc.) Where the text fundamentally fails is the approach to conveying that to the student.A good text should either a) convey general topics and trends to the reader so they can be familiar when they come upon them in their careers (e.g. tests for presumptive analysis commonly used for street drugs),or b) provide specific equations, details, and thorough explanations of the fundamental principles behind a test, statistical method or reaction.The later should be used only as reference.The failure of this text is that it attempts to do both, and does neither well.The general themes are bogged down in specific minutia, while the equations, tables and appendices are incomplete and neglect the units or definitions of terms that would make them useful.

End of Chapter Questions:
Furthering the frustration is the end of chapter questions.If the text is misguided, the questions are criminal. The poorly worded, poorly conceived questions attempt to test the readers critical thinking skills, but instead are exercises in patience. In an attempt to provide "real world" scenario questions, the author (and editors) failed to ensure that the questions were properly worded (e.g. "A temperature above the flash point of a fuel is a necessary condition for combustion but is it a sufficient one?" Is WHAT one? The temperature? the condition? the fuel? sufficient for what?).They also failed to check if the problems could be solved with the information provided!What is the point of a text that makes you search journal articles published AFTER the textbook to determine the enthalpy of TATP? How would one "determine" the structure to TATP without prior knowledge of what TATP is in the first place? It isn't mentioned in the text anywhere except as the question. One might argue that the author is trying to teach the student to use the internet as a resource.What then is the point of the text?

1st Edition
Historically, 1st Editions have a few errors.I'd challenge anyone to find a text costing over $150 MSRP with as many errors. The text in chapter 2 requires you look up information in Appendix 13, yet the book only contains 6 appendices.The text constantly refers to phantom tables and equations. Within the same chapter, there are Variables (V) representing different things of which neither variable is explained or labeled. Important terms are placed in bold, then never defined.Statements are made without reference that one skilled in the art knows are untrue.

Cost and Availability.
Finally, the cost of a book is too expensive for what you get.In my current Master's Program, this text is the most expensive one I've purchased, and ranks in the bottom 10% for usability and reuse.And while it is not a significant factor for most, this text is not available as a (discounted and searchable) e-book.

I can think of no reason to use this text over any other, and that is not having read any other text.

Things needed to make this text successful in the 2nd Edition.
-Add missing appendices
-Fix errors
-Clearly define variables and important terms
-Rewrite end-of-chapter questions-Make sure they can be completed from the information provided in the text.
-Either remove clutter from the book and focus on themes and general topics or expand the text to a proper reference text that can be trusted
-Lower price and provide e-book version.

PROS
-Good broad inclusion of subjects encompassed in "Forensic Chemistry"

CONS
-Neither approachable nor a sufficient reference text
-Riddled with errors, portions of text missing
-Expensive
-No E-book option

Forensic Chemistry Soln Manual
This is a very good paperback book. It contains all details explaining the questions in the back of each chapter in the textbook Forensic Chemistry.

Good condition
This book is exactly what I was looking for as far as a forensic chemistry book.It came in great condition and relatively quickly. ... Read more

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